All the headlines from our Reinsurance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2007 // Aon Re Global’s analysis of reinsurance rates found premiums for “personal lines, standard commercial lines and complex commercial lines,” are “likely to be flat to lower during mid-year renewals of...
Mar 30 2007 // A private firm has released its study of how Louisiana would operate a “catastrophe fund,” one of several ideas lawmakers are considering to help ease the state’s property insurance crisis.The study...
Mar 28 2007 // Equitas, the run-off vehicle established by Lloyd’s in 1996 to handle 1992 and prior years’ non-life liabilities, has completed its reinsurance transaction with National Indemnity Company, a member of the...
Mar 26 2007 // Bermuda’s Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd. announced that G. William Davis, Executive VP – Worldwide Treaty and Facultative Reinsurance, is retiring from the company effective March 31, 2007. He...
Mar 21 2007 // Los Angeles, CA – Derek Gullage has joined GJ Sullivan Reinsurance (GJS Re) as Vice President in their Los Angeles office.Mr. Gullage previously spent ten years with the Farmers Insurance Group, where most recently...
Mar 20 2007 // Ark Syndicate Management opened for business as Lloyd’s newest managing agency. Ark will assume the management of Syndicate 4020 with a 2007 capacity of £114 million ($222 million). The new Syndicate “will...
Mar 19 2007 // 18 years ago an Irish insurance conference probably would have consisted of a broker and an underwriter from Dublin having a pint of Guinness in a pub (most likely in London). Times have changed. Since the founding of the...
Mar 19 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the global risk and reinsurance specialist of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, announced the appointment of Laurent Dignat, 41, to its newly created European Solutions Group. He...
Mar 15 2007 // Argonaut Group, Inc., a specialty underwriter, and PXRE Group Ltd., a Bermuda-based property reinsurer, have agreed to a merger under which the combined entity will do business as Argo Group International Holdings...
Mar 14 2007 // Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the risk and reinsurance specialist of the Marsh & McLennan Companies, has launched SelectCat, which it describes as “an innovative, index-based product that provides...
Mar 14 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that its ratings and outlooks on the European subsidiaries of Zurich-based global reinsurer Swiss Reinsurance Co. -rated “AA-/Stable/A-1+” – remain...
Mar 13 2007 // Swiss Re announced plans to alter its current corporate structure within the European Union by forming three legal entities, based in Luxembourg.They “will serve as risk carriers for most of its European reinsurance...
Mar 12 2007 // Millea Holdings, Inc. announced that it plans to establish a life and annuity reinsurance subsidiary on the Isle of Man by the end of this month. “Tokio Marine Bluebell Re Limited,” will be set up jointly with...
Mar 12 2007 // Fitch Ratings says it does not believe that individual (re)insurers’ financial or competitive positions will be materially altered under the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ reinsurance task...
Mar 12 2007 // Fitch Ratings says it does not believe that individual (re)insurers’ financial or competitive positions will be materially altered under the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ reinsurance task...
Mar 9 2007 // Franklin W. Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) said reinsurance regulation goes beyond the narrow issue of collateral, and is pleased that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...
Mar 8 2007 // New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission is asking why former Insurance Superintendent Eric Serna did not investigate a title insurance company that admitted giving more than $300,000 to a builder in what a state...
Mar 7 2007 // Bermuda-based Max Re Capital Ltd. announced that it will seek shareholder approval to change the Company’s name to Max Capital Group Ltd. at the 2007 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) to be held on Friday,...
Mar 5 2007 // Florida homeowners could see average property insurance savings ranging from around 10 percent in the Panhandle to more than half the cost of their policy in South Florida because of a new law, state insurance officials...
Mar 1 2007 // Following its upbeat analysis of the personal lines market (See related article in National section), A.M. Best Co. has also given a thumbs up to the global reinsurance market.Best revised its 2007 outlook for the sector...